its limit and the reality by which it is distinguished and set apart. Thus, nothing existed before the world except Allah, with His attributes.

Various groups among the people of the Sunnah and those of knowledge have held that al-Dahr (Time) is one of Allah’s names, taking the apparent meaning of the hadith reported concerning this. They said that it means the Everlasting, the Ever-Enduring, the Beginningless. It is mentioned that the invocation “O Dahr, O Dayhūr, O Dayhār” has been reported. And calling Him beginningless